Key signature: Cmajor
Submitted on April 28th 2004 by errik.
This tune has been added to 38 tunebooks.
Also known as My Mary Anne, My Mary-Anne, My Maryann.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: My Maryanne
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Cmaj
d|cded cAGB|Adde dcAB|cded cAGE|FAGE FGAB|
cded cAGB|Adde dcAB|cded cAGE|F2(GE) ({F}ED) D2|
egge cBcd|eaag aged|egge dfed|cAGA c2 cd|
egge cBcd|eaab agef|gefd (3efg ed|cAGA c4|
My Maryanne or My Mary Anne?
It's easy to guess errik learned this nice tune from Solas' second. I just noticed it's also on Harry Bradley's "As I carelessly did stray...," which is my currently favourite recording.
# Posted on April 28th 2004 by slainte
Yeah, that is where I learned it. I haven't heard it anywhere else.
# Posted on April 28th 2004 by errik
Recorded in the 70`s by `The Irish Tradition`
As far as I remember the line up was Brendan McComiskey on button -box,Brendan Mulvihill on fiddle and I forget the guitar player.They were all from Boston or Chicago I think.I`ll dig the recording out of the archive and list it here.I`m sure some of the artists who have recorded it recently got it from that very lump of vinyl.It makes me wonder why people learn tunes off old recordings,stick them on their own albums and give no credit to the source-not always the case but very common in trad circles.
# Posted on April 28th 2004 by cos
Laura Risk plays a version of this tune on her CD "The Merry-Making"
# Posted on April 29th 2004 by violynnsey
That would be *Billy* McComiskey who along with Brendan Mulvihill and singer/guitar Andy O'Brien comprised the group The Irish Tradition in the 1970s/80s. They were not from Boston or Chicago, rather it was from New York City that they all three came down to Washington DC in the mid '70s to form The Irish Tradition and make their mark as the house band at The Dubliner pub on Capitol Hill. Although they disbanded in the 1980s, their influence is still felt on the Irish trad scene today in the Baltimore/Washington area. All Irish music here today can trace its roots to them. Billy McComiskey, originally from Brooklyn, now lives in Baltimore. Brendan Mulvihill, with roots in Limerick and Birmingham (England) now lives just outside Washington DC. Both can be seen and heard often around these parts. Andy O'Brien, originally from Kerry if I'm not mistaken, now lives somewhere around Baltimore. Although he's not seen out as often as Brendan and Billy, he's still around and surfaces occasionally, always in fine voice.
As for the tune My Maryann, I believe Billy credits East Galway/Bronx flute player Jack Coen for digging it out of O'Neill's and putting it into circulation.
# Posted on April 29th 2004 by johnkerr
It's also on Micheal O Raghallaigh's 'The Nervous Man', - in a funny key, as he plays it on a G#/C# concertina.
# Posted on April 30th 2004 by OrganicPeatCreature
My Maryanne
East Galway flute player Sean Moloney recorded a slightly different version of the tune in D as "The Sailor on the Rock." In fact, the first part of his version is almost identical to that of the well-known reel.
# Posted on September 4th 2004 by slainte
Also played in D
Now I'm convinced that this tune is related to "The Sailor on the Rock." Harry Bradley's version of "Maryanne" in the key of D is very similar to the East Galway version of "the Sailor": http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/765/comments#comment166939
# Posted on January 17th 2006 by slainte